I once had the opportunity to play a friendly penny-ante game of poker with the currency artist JSG Boggs. Boggs had been trying all afternoon to get up a poker game, but the only people who wanted to play were Boggs, myself, my brother-in-law Jim, and our friend Al. This was during a party at [...]

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So….. some ex-Google engineers have launched their own search engine: Cuil (pronounced “Cool”).
They claim that its index is 3 times the size of Google’s. Great!
They say it focuses on on-page content for relevancy. Great!
I would love to see a good solid competitor for Google. I would love to see a search engine that focuses more [...]

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Spammers are almost ruining e-mail and the Internet. I support the death penalty for all spammers.
This is Spammer Assassinator Cat:
Just a little more to the right, a little closer……
“Die Spammer, Die”

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